* Posts by Dr. Cybrid

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Musk: Come ride my Big F**king Rocket to Mars

Dr. Cybrid

Re: Musk has done good stuff with SpaceX, but...

Putting aside the recent Finnish theory regarding paired photons, we're back to researching Woodward's MET / MEGA Mach effect drives then.

That said, its not just longer-lived probes that would benefit. Station keeping thrusters would still be immensely useful for satellites.

Regardless, I still think both should be getting more effort and funding for research. Even getting a concrete yes or no on whether it works or not is learning something worthwhile. There are after all, worse things we can be spending the money on. Like, F-35s that don't work and worthless politicians. :-P

Dr. Cybrid

Re: Musk has done good stuff with SpaceX, but...

bob, you DO realize that for "17+ years" hardly any proper funding and R&D has actually been done with it because most of the boffins have been swearing up and down that it can't possibly work, except that it does right?

It works on at least some level, and the most important part about it is that we DON'T KNOW HOW it works.

Sure, you can say that it isn't practical now, but they said that about jet engines back in the day, look at where we are with them now today.

But sure, ignore what you can't explain and keep throwing tons of money away on old obsolete tech. You'll make the gatekeepers very, very rich in the short time before China masters the tech and leaves you behind in Trumpworld. Oh, wait, you mean you didn't know that they already have patents on some designs and have a satellite in orbit testing these?

Heck, Boeing even went to the trouble to get the tech for this stuff, tested it under their "Phantom Works", but has suddenly shut up about it. You don't suppose certain business interests might have had something to do with that do you?

Dr. Cybrid
Meh

Musk has done good stuff with SpaceX, but...

It's still just 40's / 50's tech, unfortunately. We just aren't going to get our asses to Mars in any sort of practical manner with these tinkertoys.

The future belongs to EMDrive (paired photon) / Woodward (MET / MEGA) engines though. And we still need to lick the radiation shielding, gravity, etc. problems too.

*sighs*

It'd be nice if somebody could actually be arsed to devote a decent amount of funding and lab resources to the boffins working on those things. There is much to be learned from it, instead we sadly seem to be stuck in the ditch, exploring the final frontiers of political corruption, oligarchy, etc. :-(

The new, new Psion is getting near production. Here's what it looks like

Dr. Cybrid
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Love projects like these...

I hope they deliver a good product and are quite successful. +1 on being able to use pure Linux on it, Android is just a poopy half-arsed distraction from what you really need with something like this: A fully functional OS, with a keyboard. :-)

I just wish that there were more projects like this, preferably at an affordable price point.

If somebody came out with something maybe just a little bit fatter with room for a swappable HD / SSD and a bigger battery, + more durable, it would be even better...

True this doesn't compare to my laptop, but then my laptop isn't exactly pocketable either. Nor would my laptop be able to run as long as this on battery power. ;-)

DreamHost smashed in DDoS attack: Who's to blame? Take a guess...

Dr. Cybrid
Facepalm

Okay.

Lets take down ALL of DreamHost because Nazis. Who aren't hosted there anymore. And forget about DreamHost telling Trump to eff off when he demands to see details of everybody who ever visited disruptj20.

Way to both miss the target AND show a lack of gratitude for saying no to Trump there guys.

Don't get me wrong, by all means, feel free to go after the Nazi Websites, but ffs try not to hit everybody else BUT the Nazis.

*facepalms*